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Dol-y-Gaer
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1443
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1443 (1443)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Talybont-on-Usk
- National Grid reference
- SO0595014800
- Latitude
- 51.82384
- Longitude
- -3.36607
- Altitude
- 426 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1887); Excavation (1950-1959); Other (2006-2007); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR123(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 927
- National record
- record SO 01 SE; monument 305950
- Wikidata
- Q31064860
Sources
References
- Silvester, B. 2007. The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Defended enclosures in Brecknock, CPAT Report No 859, Welshpool: CPAT.